"Anti-competitive" Bell ignores Quebec ISPs

MONTREAL – Calling Bell Canada anti-competitive, the Coalition of Quebec Internet Service Providers said it’s “deeply concerned” with Bell Canada's decision to try and keep high tariffs on “naked DSL” wholesale service. In April 2005, the Coalition had submitted comments to the CRTC in regards to Bell Canada Tariff Notice 6862, asking that rates charged by Bell Canada to wholesalers for naked DSL (which refers to DSL service without the local phone line) “should allow them to remain a viable alternative to Bell Canada's Sympatico while remaining reasonably profitable,” says the group. "Bell Canada failed to address the main concern...